Rome Discourse

The Rome Discourse marked Lacan's break with the [[International Psychoanalytical Association|analytic establishment] and the formation of his own school of psychoanalytic thought.

Characterized by a mardedly polemical style of presentation, it is a manifesto of the aims of Lacanian psychoanalysis.

In it Lacan catigated contemporary psychoanalytic theory and practice and proposed a radical revision of the whole psychoanalytic field.